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On 2 September, Minister of National Defence Rasa Juknevičienė and representatives of Denmark, France, Estonia, Latvia, as well as Lithuania, will attend an Air Contingent rotation ceremony at the Lithuanian Air force Air Base located in Šiauliai. Danish Air Contingent is to replace the outgoing rotation of the Baltic Air-policing mission – French Air Force Contingent which guarded Baltic airspace since April
Today, Alcatel-Lucent and INEO, GDF SUEZ group, announced the official signing of the “RDIP-Air” (for air force base Internet Protocol service networks) Partnership Agreement with the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), the French defense agency. Closely associated on this project as industrial partners, Alcatel-Lucent and INEO Defense have also the support of financial partners: Caisse des Dépôts and the SEIEF investment company (South Europe Infrastructure Equity Finance)
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The Camcopter S-100 by Schiebel, the Austrian hightech company, will again be the only UAS (Unmanned Air System) taking part in the daily flight displays (20th to 26th June) at the Paris Air Show. Flight imagery from the three-meter drone along with data from its onboard sensor will be transmitted in real time to the Air Show s TV station
Cassidian?s TRS-4D/NR, which detects movements on the sea and in the air with previously unattainable precision will be mounted on the German Navy's new F125 stabilisation frigates. Cassidian, the recently renamed defence and security division of EADS, has received an order for four naval radars and one land-based system from Blohm & Voss Naval GmbH, in Hamburg, Germany
A contract with a potential value of $66.9 million has been awarded to Wyle to provide program support to the Army's Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Project Office
Lockheed Martin’s Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile - Extended Range (JASSM-ER) recently flew two successful test flights at White Sands Missile Range, NM, increasing the program’s success rate to 91 percent in 11 flights. The live 2,000-pound class missiles, released from B-1B bombers, effectively navigated to and destroyed their intended targets
The flying exercise missions of Indo-UK Air Exercise Indradhanush began today i.e
The SR-30 Rotary UAS from Advanced UAV Technology (AUAVT) passing by the Farnborough control tower, The based on AUAVT AT-30, it was the first UAS to receive CAA permit to fly in non segregated airspace. It is powered by a gasoline engine